As we move towards having contests again, I thought I'd start a thread where folks could post one (or lots) of their favorite photoshops from the past. It could be from here, a different site, or maybe one that you just did for some other reason. Giving a bit of background on the image would also be groovy. I was digging around through some old stuff, and found a silly one that I always liked.

This goes back to Fark, probably around 2003. The original image for the contest was this:

Until right before the contest, I had the proverbial "nuthin'." Like sometimes happens with contest entries, somehow my brain went into a mode that I don't understand, and I remembered an iconic album cover that might just work. I used to periodically work album covers into contest entries. Anyhoo, here it is:

Put it all together, and what do you get?

My only regret was that I didn't make it larger. I think I did find the Dylan cover in 800x800, but since the source image was a bit small, it could be that I got some artifacts and went against it. I probably could have at least gone with a 600x600 instead of the 400x400, but time was short, so I guess I just went with the 400x400 one. Either way, I still look at it and it kind of cracks me up, which was the whole point.

Not a funny one but I did this for W1k, the theme was take something from war and make it something to represent peace. So Faberge egg/grenade I think why I like it is a few people asked if it were real.

So... earlier today I had a post all ready to go and spent many minutes coding a bunch of crap and links and all and then somehow I clicked off the tab and it was all gone and FUCKING FUCK FUCK MOTHERFUCK FUCK!!!! Or something along those lines.

I'll have to re-do it all later.

But part of it was about that 'shop that Koko just posted, and referencing Ved's comment about "take it myself". I remember the night he went to the grocery store to look for some meat, and no, not as dirty as that sounds, but we were on AIM and he was working on a Fark contest and he went to spectacular lengths to obtain his own source image. This was probably '02 or '03 or so, but the memory stays with me still. That was commitment. That was dedication to the craft. I bring this up because it was just two or three nights ago I was conveying this very story to Peacegirl as I was explaining Mechapixel to her and all my pals here and our histories together. It's almost a whole fucking decade now. God damn.